01.27.13

Traffic peaked at 14,000 visitors the day it hit Hacker News, then trailed off:

I particularly enjoyed the new “Live Analytics” feature on Google Analytics, which shows you who’s on your site right now:

In the end, 40% of our traffic came from Facebook, 39% from Hacker News, 10% from reddit, 7.5% from Twitter and 3% from Google+. In other words, things started on Hacker News but wound up spreading through other social media.

The traffic spike was exciting, but also a bit sad. OldSF is fundamentally a read-only site, which makes it hard to keep people coming back. Raven and I did some brainstorming and decided to start tweeting “pictures of the day” on @Old_SF. Please follow us!